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Anthony Roth Costanzo sings 7 roles in madcap `Marriage of Figaro' at New York's Little Island
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This image released by Little Island shows Anthony Roth Costanzo during a performance of "The Marriage of Figaro" in New York on Aug. 30, 2024. - photo by Nina Westervelt/Little Island via AP
NEW YORK (AP) — Anthony Roth Costanzo gives a truly inside look at one of Mozart’s most loved operas. Singing seven different roles in a madcap presentation of “Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)” at New York's Little Island, the countertenor labors through the Countess’ “Dove sono” aria with a steel laryngoscope down his throat while a video recording of his throbbing vocal chords is displayed on screens. “After the first part of the opera in which I’ve torn my voice to shreds essentially going through all of these hijinks and she has been carried offstage in a stretcher, she comes back in a hospital gown and she has this nightmare of her husband, the Count, giving her a laryngoscopy, which of course has all kinds of sexual innuendo,” Costanzo said.